This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Now that Jay Leno's 10:00 p.m. talk show on NBC is moving back to late night NBC has to find new programming to fill that hour. One of the options is yet another program in the "Law and Order" franchise based in LA. Yet producer Dick Wolf already tried this with the 2003 series "LA Dragnet" which featured Al Bundy as Joe Friday. Still if the Law and Order LA does come to fruition imagine all the fun cameos with folks like Mayor Villaraigosa, Tom LeBong and Phil Jennerjahn.

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Paul Krekorian IS a Socialist.A far-left liberal. A Statist who prefers an ever-expanding government that interferes in the rights of all individuals.

His TV commercial showed that he was proud to stand with the NIMBYs in S-T in the way of progress. I guess Home Depot will never be able to build in S-T because freedom-hating liberals like Paul Krekorian and Joe B say "no".

Krekorian and Koretz should be wearing "Chairman Mao" hats when the show up for work in Council.

Shame on you for playing into Eli Broad's long term game plan and vilifying teachers who want to hold onto academic education and not turn all our schools into trade techs. What you should vilify is the habit of loading up teachers with dozens of stupid equivalency tests, which assure that every classroom will edge towards mediocrity rather than excellence.

Mr Sam, local Republican leaders are gathering resources to support whoever runs against Phil in the Republican primary. They are trying to avoid the embarrassment of him as their nominee and to block him from getting a seat on the party central committees which he would automatically receive once he lost to Diane Watson. How embarrassing your own party doesn't even want you!

Since land developers keep reaching into the forest for land to develop, I have no problem with the wildlife moving back into detroit, where the filthy humans who live there treated it like a piece of filth once the whites fled to the suburbs.

Not quite right about the South Central Farmers. The Farmers oppose a project of Jan Perry's located at the intersection of Slauson and Central Avenues. Perry pushed the CRA to condemn the land of the owners in order for the CRA to turn the land over to Perry's political hack supporters: Regency Realty (a non-local shopping center developer out of Florida) and Concerned Citizens of South Los Angeles (a troubled non-profit run by the family of former activist Juanita Tate, now deceased).

This does NOT involve the land where the Farmers had their farm featured in the Academy Award nominated film "The Garden". The Farmers have concerns with giving millions of dollars of CRA money to the folks at Concerned Citizens.

Concerned Citizens has been caught double dipping on a soccer field project and was forced to return money to the State. Many of their projects have been total failures and yet Perry keeps getting the City to bailout her political supporters.

When is someone going to stand up against the adult organized soccer league games being play at North Hollywood Park? They are killing the grass and soon it will look like Whitsett and Vanowen, a dust bowl. It is not racist to say the park is for all folks to use but not ok for anyone or anyone group to destroy. This has been brought up to Councilmember LeBonge, but it goes unaddressed! This Browning of Los Angeles is not acceptable.

OMG Steve Lopez is so out of touch he posts this today calling Father Greg Boyle one of the most admirable Angelenos of all time." Steve is asking for names. Poor Steve has no clue FAther Boyle is no longer a priest and the money donated to his Homeboys is used to hired $500 an hour attorneys to defend them. Shocking people still are clueless about this Boyle guy. Ask any officer how many of his gang bangers get arrested over and over and he protects them.

Got it, Michael. To be honest, I believe UTLA would have virtually busted itself had not this fiscal crisis and all its attendant scapegoating (and Cortines himself) come along last year and revitalized it. Where it was once moribund, now it looks far more formidable.

I respectfully disagree. Voters understand leadership when they see it....and they are not seeing it in this country right now. Not in DC. Not in Sacramento, and definitely not in L.A.Our Constitution is in tatters because of egregious and aggressive Federal interference.

I'm not interested in holding voters hands and telling them fantasies. I spoke at two separate Tea Party rallies here in Los Angeles, a fact that I choose not to conceal, nor deny. I want to make sure Conservatives sweep to power in 2010. I will run an aggressive campaign that depends on voters having good instincts for financial self-preservation.

My campaign literature is going to start with the same phrase every time....*************ZERO.That is the percentage chance of an economic recovery with budget-destroying Socialists in power in our government.**********************

How many business have to close?How many jobs have to be lost?Eventually , voters will see that our country and it's economic survival depend on freedom, not regulations. Free markets, not force.

The entire recession was caused by our government deciding that they knew what was best in the housing/mortgage industry.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will go down in economic history as world-class debacles led by wild-eyed liberals with no financial knowledge or common sense.

Tweeting on Charlie "Farmer John" Beck in Boyle Heights secret meeting with non profits. WTF??? Beck has his photo plastered all over the place like a politican. People pissed just told Farmer John won't be arriving til 7:30pm. Talk about insulting people who arrived at the start 6pm. Wonder if his criminal defense attorney and his lapdog Capt. he doesn't leave home without.

Why is it that nobody realizes that Phil is like that kid named in my second grade class who just craved attention.

Phil will take whatever posture is controversial, without even understanding it, and just post something up because IT MAKES HIM FEEL IMPORTANT! THAT'S WHAT JOHN PHILLIPS SAID ABOUT HIM ON KABC.

Phil was mournful when he came in last place in the mayor's race, but loved the attention. He said, and I quote, "That made me semi famous."

Who in the world other than Phil would think that coming in last place makes him "semi famous" in any remotely positive way?

Everyone here who responds to Phil is just caving in to his childish needs for attention. Maybe mommie built him up too much, or daddy told him that his swing was great, but he was never able to achieve anything.